Watch-chain guard for trousers



E. G. BAILEY.

WATCH CHAIN GUARD FOR TROUSERS.

APPLICATION FILED 007.15.1915.

l l 9 3 9 7 1 Patented Aug. 8, 1916.

TE STATES FCE.

WATCH-CHAIN GUARD FOR TROUSERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 8, 1916.

Application filed October 15, 1915. Serial No. 56,131.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD G. BAILEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Eufaula, in the county of McIntosh and State of Oklahoma, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in WVatch- Chain Guards for Trousers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The primary object of this invention is to admit of the free end of a watch chain being conveniently and expeditiously attached and securely held to the trousers of the wearer.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device for carrying out the above mentioned objects, which will be simple in construction, cheaply manufactured, will be durable and will give a neat and attractive appearance when applied to the trousers.

Other objects will appear and be better understood from that embodiment of my invention of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming a part thereof, in which Figure l is a sectional detail view of a pair of trousers, showing the watch chain guard attached thereto, Fig. 2 is a detail front elevation of the guard, removed from the trousers, and showing the same partly in section, Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view, taken on the line 33 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, the letter A designates a pair of trousers, having a pocket B located adjacent the waist band of the trousers, for the reception of a Watch C, to which is secured, in the ordinary manner, one end of a watch chain D.

I The watch chain guard includes an elongated fiexible body 1, and formed of inner and outer pieces of material, designated 2 and 3, the said inner and outer pieces 2 and 3 being formed, preferably, of the same material of which the trousers are constructed. In the views shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the inner and outer pieces 2 and 3 are secured along the longitudinal edges of the stem of the arrow shaped body 1, as at 4, and along one side edge of the head of the arrow shaped body 1, so as to hold the pieces 2 and 3 together, and to provide a pocket 6,

the other side edge of the head of the arrow shaped body, being free of stitching so as to provide an entrance opening 7 for the pocket. The free end of the stem of the arrow shaped body 1, is inserted into a trans versely extending slit 8, formed in the waist band of the trousers and the said end of the stem is held within the slit in any suitable manner. The outer piece 2 has formed thereon a longitudinally extending buttonhole shaped opening 9, which, as shown, more clearly in Fig. 3, communicates with the pocket 6. In securing a watch chain to the device shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the free end of the chain, or the end which carried the cross bar, which is designated 10, is inserted through the opening 7 in the side of the head of the arrow shaped body and into the pocket 6, the said free end of the stem being then inserted through the opening 9, and the cross bar 10 of the chain being then positioned transversely of the opening 9, as shown in Fig. 1, so as to prevent accidental disconnection of the free end of the watch chain from the body 1.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is 1. A watch chain guard for garments comprising a body formed of companion pieces of material secured together to form a pocket having an entrance opening for the passage of the free end of the watch chain therein, and one of the pieces of material having an opening therein communicating with the pocket for the passage of the cross bar or the free end of the chain after the same has been inserted into the pocket.

2. In combination with a garment, of an elongated body formed of companion pieces of material secured together to provide a pocket having an entrance opening for the passage of the free end of a watch chain, one of the pieces of material having an opening therein communicating with the pocket for the passage of the cross bar of the watch chain therethrough, the said body having one end secured to the garment and having its other end free.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature 'in presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD G. BAILEY.

Witnesses:

WV. H. LUs'r, O. L. CLARK.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner 01' Patents, Washington, D. G. 

